Antibacterial Activity of Seed and Flower Parts of Crotalaria juncea Linn
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Crotalaria juncea Linn. (leguminoceae), is used as medicine in the traditional system of Indian medicine for the treatment of anaemia, impetigo, menorrhagia, psoriasis etc. The objective of this study was to evaluate antibacterial activity of the seed and flower parts of C. juncea. The ethanol extract of flowers part (CJFEE) and seeds part (CJSEE) were evaluated for the antibacterial activity by the agar disc diffusion method. The presence of steroids, triterpenes, flavonoids, phenolics and glycosides were reported in the extracts by the preliminary chemical tests. Results revealed that CJSEE possess significant antibacterial activity against the E. coli, K. pneumonia, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus and V. chlorae. Hence, study concluded that seed part possess significant antibacterial activity which may be linked to its phenolic content.
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